Chapter 101: Teaching Assistant

Although Lip spends his days in the library and study room, like some students, he still has a lot more hard work than Lang, who sits at the computer desk and plays games whenever he has free time.

Before he was reborn, Lipu was not a good student, let alone a scholar, although he also went to college, but he was just a junior college that did not enter the stream, and his college life was basically wasted.

After being reborn, it is a wise choice to have a good mind that I dreamed of before, and when I don't think of other uses for the time being, it is not a bad choice to use it in my studies.

Although I know that there are not many places where the knowledge I am learning now can be actually applied in my future work and life, it is better to learn things than to waste my time.

The time spent before rebirth has made Lip fed up with that kind of idleness, and once he is reborn, of course, he has to change his way of living.

Moreover, although the current study is heavy, it does not take up all of Lip's time, and there is still a lot of leisure time.

Lip knows how to combine work and rest.

At the previous sorority party, Lip had eaten enough, so in the first few days of the official start of classes, Lip did not mess with flowers and grass anymore, and devoted all his energy to studying.

A simple life, time flies quite quickly, and soon a week is about to pass, and it is at this time, in the last big class on Friday afternoon, that Lip meets an unexpected person.

Although Lip is interested in learning, he is not addicted, and he is not very active in class, although it is not so pressure that the class time comes, but it is not too early.

This big class is the only large class taught by Lipp this semester, and the classes in the first few days are all small classes.

The format of a small class with only a dozen people and a large class of dozens or hundreds of people is completely different, and one of the most important points is that the professors who take the big classes are equipped with a special teaching assistant.

Teaching assistants here are not full-time faculty members, but are held by senior students, which is a work-study position and a characteristic of American universities.

Teaching assistants, as the name suggests, means "to help professors complete their teaching".

As a top international university, the professors of the University of Chicago are experts in their respective fields, and teaching is only part of their work, and the more important thing is to do their own research.

You can't teach the Nobel Prize, the Pulz Prize, or the Turing Award just by teaching!

Moreover, as an internationally renowned professor, he can also teach undergraduate students in person, which is already worthy of the salary offered by the school, and the school cannot ask them for more.

Therefore, the trivial tasks outside of teaching need to be helped by teaching assistants.

Teaching assistants have a lot of chores, but their main responsibility is to correct the class papers assigned by the professor.

The unexpected person Lip met in this big class was the teaching assistant of this course.

It turned out to be Chrissy.

When Lip walked into the lecture hall, Chrissy was on the podium, preparing for the professor who had not yet arrived.

This is the first class of this course, and the students who take the course have a relatively good attitude, and there is no other delay, they all come to the classroom early, Lip is the latest one, when he walks into the classroom, there are only one or two minutes left before the start of class.

When Chrissy swept over him, she thought it was the professor coming, so she stood up and turned her head to take a closer look, only to find that it was not, but it was a little familiar.

At this time, Lip was also looking at her, judging by her clothes and outfit, that she would not be a professor, looking at her busy work on the podium, he had already guessed her identity as a teaching assistant, and he was also a little curious about her.

The teaching assistant has the right to evaluate the student's usual academic performance, and if you want to complete the course successfully, you don't necessarily have to have a good relationship with the teaching assistant, but at least you can't offend her.

The two looked at each other and immediately recognized each other.

Although the two had only met once before, after all, they had a skin-to-skin relationship, and the process was very harmonious, leaving a good impression on each other, and that incident had not passed too long, and the impression had not faded.

Lip didn't expect Chrissy to be his teaching assistant for the course, and Chrissy didn't expect Lip to sign up for the course.

Although this course is not a compulsory core course for students as stipulated by the university, it is one of the few popular courses at the University of Chicago that has more than 100 students taking each session.

Chrissy can become a teaching assistant for this course, which is enough to show her ability and level, she is by no means a vase, but a student with real talent.

After Chrissy recognized Lip, her eyes were in a trance, but her face did not change at all, and she did not mean to greet Lip.

Lip wanted to say hello to her, but as soon as the smiling face was revealed, there was a sound of footsteps behind him, and when he turned his head to look, he saw a professor dressed in professional attire, walking in in a hurry, Lip quickly climbed the stairs and found a seat to sit down.

The professor stood on the podium, did not greet him, and went straight to the lecture.